- During World War I, a young nurse in a hospital in German-occupied Belgium is secretly feeding military information to the British. Complicating matters is the guilt she feels when she has to treat the German casualties inflicted as a result of the information she's passed on, and the fact that the local German commandant is falling in love with her.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
- In 1915, behind the German lines, in the town of Roeselare, Marthe Cnockaert, a nurse, is hired by the head doctor of the invader's field hospital. Her parents run a cafe where many of the occupants come to chat over a drink and even more than one, which facilitates indiscretions.
Aunt Lucille, who was part of a network of informers working for the British, contacted Marthe and convinced her to take a message to agent #63. After this first step, she participated in the active resistance against the occupiers.
She helps two Englishmen escape and discovers with amazement that Stépan, who is working at her side, is not someone in charge of watching her but an agent of the English intelligence service.
Marthe and Stépan discover that the Germans have collected hundreds of steel cylinders, thousands of cotton balls, have documents on the prevailing winds and are stockpiling ammonia in large quantities. The indiscretion of an alcohol-soaked chemist in Martha's parents' cafe confirms that a chlorine offensive is being prepared. Through an old sewer, they arrived at the place where the asphyxiating bombs were stored and succeeded in dynamiting the site, but this did not prevent the attack, after which they had to treat a large number of intoxicated people.
Shortly afterwards, there was a great deal of excitement in the Teutonic garrison: the arrival of William II was being prepared, preceded by a religious parade in the open air at Westroosebeke. Marthe had to attend as a nurse because the sick like the other soldiers had to be purified by the bishop. Having had time to warn the British, they sent two planes to bomb the gathering. Being at first a devoted nurse, she went to the aid of the wounded and received the Iron Cross as a sanction for her devotion.
The commander, who had fallen in love with her, took her to Brussels and she reluctantly followed him because she thought she could find out the place, date and time of the Kaiser's visit in private. She learns that the visit has been canceled.
Children find a watch in the old sewer tunnel, at the site of the explosion. In order to find out who had left it at the site of the sabotage, the Germans spread the word that it was possible to recover objects stolen by a soldier. Marthe, who came to get it, fell into the trap, was unmasked and then tried for espionage. Stépan, declaring himself to be the main person responsible for the sabotage, saves Marthe's life but not his own.
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